Kurt Adolf Eduard von Mühlen

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Kurt Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Mühlen (born January 22, 1905 in Ulm , † January 14, 1971 in Kressbronn on Lake Constance ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Familiar

Kurt von Mühlen came from a Frankfurt patrician family who were accepted into the patrician society Zum Frauenstein in 1629 and first into the noble inheritance of the Alten Limpurg family in 1733 . He was the son of the royal Wuerttemberg major general Friedrich Gustav Anton Freiherr von Mühlen (1866-1933) and his wife Natalie Wollaib (1868-1951).

Kurt von Mühlen was married to Else Stockhaus from 1932 and had two sons and two daughters from this marriage.

career

Mills joined on 1 April 1923 as an officer cadet in the 5th Pioneer - Battalion in the Reichswehr one. On February 1, 1927, he was promoted to lieutenant in the 13th (Württemberg) Infantry Regiment . On October 1, 1936 he became a captain company commander in the 75th Infantry Regiment. During the western campaign in 1940, he was the commander of the 2nd battalion in this regiment. On June 15, 1940 he became adjutant of the 5th Infantry Division , with which he participated in Operation Barbarossa , the attack on the Soviet Union , from June 1941 . On October 1, 1941, he was promoted to major and appointed commander of MG Battalion 5. His promotion to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1942. On August 6, 1942, he took the lead of the hunter - Regiment 75 in the renamed 5. Hunter Division on July 6, 1942 Division, whose commander he concurrently with his promotion to colonel on March 1, 1943. In March 1944 he was transferred to the Döberitz infantry school as a course commander and on May 10, 1944 to teaching staff 1 at the Dresden shooting school.

On July 8, 1944, he was appointed to lead the 559th People's Grenadier Division on the Western Front , and on November 9, 1944, he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the division. Shortly before the war, on April 17, 1945 he let the soldiers Erwin Kreetz , who had learned of the death of his wife and then his unit was removed in a quarry near Steinheim an der Murr for alleged desertion summarily shot. Mühlen was promoted to lieutenant general three days later, on April 20, 1945. At the end of the war in May 1945 he was taken prisoner of war , from which he was released in July 1947.

After his dismissal, he worked from 1947 to 1950 as a fitter , then as a sales representative for the AEG company .

Awards

literature

  • Hans Körner: Frankfurt patrician. Ernst Vogel, Munich, 1971.
  • Adolf Reinicke: The 5th Jägerdivision 1939–1945. Podzun, Bad Nauheim, 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurt patricians. Ernst Vogel, Munich, 1971, p. 263.
  2. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurt patricians. Ernst Vogel, Munich, 1971, p. 269.
  3. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 . P. 85
  4. ↑ For me the war is over. Desertion, condemnation, etc. Execution d. Erwin Kreetz in Kleinbottwar in April 1945. Alexander Seitz History Workshop Marbach and surroundings, Marbach am Neckar 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Mühlen, Kurt Adolf Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühlen, Kurt Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1971
Place of death Kressbronn on Lake Constance